Senior Software Engineer - Data
About The Position
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join Elliptic's Product-Engineering organisation, focusing on data engineering solutions that power our blockchain analytics and intelligence products. This is a hands-on engineering role: as a senior member of the team, you will spend the majority of your time designing, building, and shipping the data platform yourself, while driving the technical direction that ensures it continues to meet the growing demands of blockchain analysis. Challenges include building a blockchain-agnostic solution that scales globally, processing large batch and streaming datasets, and solving complex data processing problems that give our customers deep insights into the flow of value across the crypto ecosystem. Elliptic is building an AI fluent workforce. We invest in the tools, training and time for our teams to use AI well: every Elliptite has access to Claude, and we expect AI to be a normal part of how you work, not an occasional add on. We are not looking for people who use AI the most. We are looking for people who use it best, with curiosity, sound judgment and full ownership of what they ship. Across our Product, Engineering, Design and Intelligence we’re going beyond giving everyone the tools. We’re setting new standards. Using AI to transform how we build and work every day to deliver on our market opportunity. Put another way our teams iterate alongside agentic systems applying judgement to build world class systems.
Requirements
- Hands-on production experience with Scala and functional programming.
- Ability to design, build, and maintain distributed data systems in a cloud-based environment.
- Hands-on experience with big data frameworks such as Spark or Databricks.
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Judgement to balance scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Experience with data modelling and workflow orchestration.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in stream processing frameworks and event-driven architecture.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience working in containerised environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Interest in AI-driven tooling for engineering workflows.
- Interest in crypto and blockchain technologies.
Responsibilities
- Write, ship, and maintain production code as a hands-on engineer.
- Architect, design, and implement large-scale distributed data systems and pipelines.
- Contribute to technical decision-making across batch and streaming data solutions.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and intelligence analysts to build customer-focused products.
- Explore and integrate new technologies (e.g. data orchestration or cloud-native tools) to optimise performance and scalability.
- Take shared ownership of data systems, from design to deployment and ongoing improvement and support.
- Perform thoughtful peer reviews that raise code quality and share best practices across the team.
- Contribute to platform-wide initiatives that improve reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.
- Help shape the technical roadmap for data engineering across Elliptic.
- This role requires ‘Adoptive’ AI fluency. This means AI has already changed how you work, not just how fast. We expect you to enjoy leveraging AI and agentic systems to operate more effectively.
Benefits
- Hybrid working: The option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year.
- Remote Work Budget: $650 budget to set up your home office space.
- L&D Budget: $1,000 annual Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development.
- Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + US Public Holidays.
- Birthday Leave: An extra day off for your birthday.
- Enhanced Parental Leave: We provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave.
- Healthcare: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage through a range of providers (including Tufts, Kaiser, Aetna, UHC, and Blue Shield of CA) with generous premium contributions for you and your dependents.
- 401k: Company match included.
- Mental Health: Full access to Spill mental health support.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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